Sunday, May 2, 2010

Magic Mirror

"Life is like a ride at an amusement park. When you go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. You enjoy the ride for a while and then you come to the point where you ask: “Is this real or is this just a ride?” Others have remembered and have come back to remind us “don’t be afraid ever because this is just a ride.” And we kill these people . It’s just a ride. It doesn’t matter because it’s just a ride no choice, no effort, no job, no savings account, just a choice right now between fear and love."

Each one of us has the magic mirror. The secular critic in all of us holds us the magic mirror and goes Whew! Big trouble, we need this. This is important.

Contributing work. So many of us are dedicated to holding up the mirror of “what’s wrong with us?” What’s wrong must be illumined.

The next part is part of the process and the journey. We wave our hands over it and turn it into a window: and look how beautiful it could be. New precious life, and re-dedication.

With a wave of our hand it becomes a door, “let’s go there now.” This is “window, mirror, door” time. Focusing where we focus will begin to open up. Whenever we focus on something, look to how does it make us feel when we focus on it, versus beating the drum of what’s wrong?

The whole system we live in drills into us that we are powerless, weak that our society is evil, that it’s fragmented. It’s all a big fat lie. We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we can’t understand who we truly are where we are going. There is no reason why the average person cannot be fully empowered. WE are incredibly powerful beings.

I spent so many years of my life trying to be good at something. I thought “I’m not ok the way I am but if I got good at things then maybe I’d be powerful.” I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was.